Matt: Here is a copy of a statement on the Mosley web page .
•"Use of a Balun or Not
We do not require the use of a balun. It is not needed"
I believe that the Yagi Test book states that each antenna was tested
using the companies recommended configuration. If the Mosley was tested
with the coax connected to the yagi driven element without a line choke,
that can explain the terrible test results for it, probably because there
was significant power spill over at the feedpoint to the coax outer shield.
It is interesting to note that the Mosley claimed gain is about 2db
greater than other tri band beams. They use dbd reference instead of dbi
while I think their claims would be about right if they used dbi reference.
I suspect if you used a good line choke at the coax feed point and subtract
2.1db from their claimed gain you would have a typical triband beam.
73, Dan, N5AR
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Matthew King - KK4CPS <KK4CPS@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Here's a question for Steve and the crowd. I was given a Mosley Pro 67,
> but none of the hardware is there. No u-bolts, no spacer blocks, nothing.
> Mosley advises that it's going to be about 300 dollars for all of the
> hardware. Given its lackluster performance in the tests, is worth paying
> for the hardware to just get up a beam of some sort, or should that 300
> dollars be put towards something else? What might that something else be
> if that's roughly all my budget allows?
>
> Thanks y'all!
>
> Matt
> KK4CPS
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:27 AM, K7LXC--- via TowerTalk <
> towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > If I knew the traps, Gain and pattern were all good, I would go with
> > > the Mosley ..My Budget is around $2,600 USD and I want to make the
> > > correct decision.
> >
> > If you're thinking of buying a Mosley - you DEFINITELY need to read our
> > on-the-air tribander comparison report (available from
> championradio.com
> > ).
> > One of the PRO antennas had negative gain on one band. Our conclusion
> was
> > that they under-performed the competition.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve K7LXC
> > TOWER TECH
> > and
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